I’ve never been so busy, I made the life altering decision to go back to college at 30 to get an engineering degree. I generally like math and I love building things and messing with electronics, it should be the perfect fit. But after starting at calc 2 and now doing 5 or 6 classes full time, working, and planning a wedding. I feel like I’m stretched thin.

I’ll get off of school and my brain feels like molasses. I’m medicated but I still feel like everyone is learning at twice the speed as me while I reread the question to make sure I actually understand the wording.

There’s some of you out there who are engineers, scientists, doctors with ADHD, who go out and do community stuff, go to the gym, live life and even socialize.

How? How do you do it? How do you keep up with such a constant schedule and try to understand new concepts every day on top of that? How do you not just curl into a ball and closing up into yourself to stop being overwhelmed?

I feel like I’m doing life on hard mode and it sucks

  • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
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    24 hours ago

    Have you also had trouble keeping up with homework due dates? I had the idea of getting an actual planner and it’s always with me and only put homework dates in there, it’s been a bit of a help

    I’m mechatronics engineering, but I’m thinking of switching to electrical, as it’s just more interesting to me

    • Bad_Engineering@fedia.io
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      15 hours ago

      Yea, keeping track of dues dates has been a big struggle. I try to use the calendar app on my phone to set a reminder for pretty much everything. My classes are all MWF so it designate Tues, Thurs, and Sat as dedicated homework days before I leave for work. I was torn between mechanical and electrical, I did mechanical because its where my strengths lie, but I’m still tempted to switch just because I want to learn more about electrical.